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Kaiserin
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English
vertical Portrayal of Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth on a millennium memorial leaf with the crown.jpg Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph I and Kaiserin (en wife of a Kaiser) Elisabeth Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria Lambert 1891 IMG 5719.jpg A Kaiserin (en rose) in the Rosarium Baden in the Doblhoffpark in Baden bei Wien
Etymology
From en de Kaiserin.n The rose was named after Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein by the German rose breeder Peter Lambert in 1891.
Noun
en wife of a Kaiser en historical The wife of a Kaiser.
en kaiserin
en [1917] w:Herbert Warren ‘And such a brave Zepp he was’ The “Land & Water” Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons II London Published by “Land & Water,”Empire House, Kingsway, W.C. 86 https://archive.org/details/landwateredition02raemuoft/page/86/mode/1up 11556338 We should have expected the Kaiser to curse them and the weather, not to weep. Weeping? Kaisers and Kaiserins and Count Zeppelins should be made of sterner stuff.
en 1933 Joachim von Kürenberg Emily Overend Lorimer A Closed Door His Excellency the Spectre: The Life of Fritz von Holstein London Constable and Company Ltd. 227 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505386/page/n277/mode/1up 2017975 The Kaiserin, who rarely or never took a hand in politics, was tempted by this personal provocation, and lodged a request that Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter “along with his mistress” might be left in Bucharest—a suitable place for him.
en 1938 Edward John Bing Nicholas on the Throne The Secret Letters of the Last Tsar: Being the Confidential Correspondence between Nicholas II and His Mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont. Longmans, Green and Co. 128 https://archive.org/details/secretlettersofl00nich/page/128/mode/1up 765683 The Kaiser’s and Kaiserin’s journey to the Holy Land furnishes another occasion to Empress Marie to vent her feelings with regard to William II.
en rose Rosa genus ‘Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria’, a white hybrid tea rose cultivar.
en 4 March 1899 Boston The American Florist XIV 561 Chicago, Ill. American Florist Company 908 https://archive.org/details/americanfloristw18amer/page/908/mode/1up 2 1479872 W. H. Elliott tried the experiment of throwing out a bench of Kaiserins at Christmas that had been blooming all summer and substituting Brides and Bridesmaids for winter flowering and judging from present appearances it was a success.
en 2 July 1910 Margaret Busbee Shipp A Woman’s Nondescript Garden Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine XIII 1 Thomson, Ga. Jeffersonian Publishing Company May 1911 42 https://archive.org/details/watsonsjefferson131atla/page/42/mode/1up 11850296 In May I exhibited my Paul Neyrons and Kaiserins with tremendous boastfulness, but they have long since stopped blooming, while these languid mornings find you daintily decked in pink.
en 1950 James Alexander Gamble Two Remarkable White Roses Roses Unlimited [Harrisburg, Pa.] Published by [T]he author 18–19 https://archive.org/details/rosesunlimited00gamb/page/18/mode/1up 4905490 Of all white hybrid teas, Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria is the best known. While the popularity of even the finest of roses is generally short lived, the wonderful Kaiserin still leads in its color class after a reign of fifty-nine years. The class for Kaiserins at the Potomac Rose Shows in Washington, D. C, for example, is the special favorite of thousands of flower lovers.
Related terms
en tsarina
References
Further reading
Rosa 'Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria'
en History of Austria History of Germany Roses Titles
German
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Etymology
de :af Kaiser<t:emperor> -in
From de Kaiser in emperor.
Pronunciation
de /ˈkaɪ̯zəʁɪn/
de De-Kaiserin.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Kai se rin
Noun
f
empress (wife or widow of an emperor)
Declension
f
Related terms
de Kaiserinmutter, de Kaiseringroßmutter, de Kaiserinwitwe
de Königin
Further reading
de Heads of state Monarchy